while that will print the date, it is not the julian date. The julian date is the number of days so far this year.
Instead, try this: use Time::JulianDay $jd = julian_day($year, $month_1_to_12, $day) or this $jd = local_julian_day($seconds_since_1970); Aman Thind <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] in> cc: (bcc: Brent Michalski/STL/MASTERCARD) Subject: RE: Julian Date 11/08/02 09:14 AM Hi Steve, All Herez how you do it : $sec = (localtime())[0]; $min = (localtime())[1]; $hour = (localtime())[2]; print "Time => $hour : $min : $sec\n"; $day = (localtime())[3]; $month = (localtime())[4] + 1; $year = (localtime())[5]; $year = $year + 1900; print "Date => $month \\ $day \\ $year"; -aman. -----Original Message----- From: Steve [mailto:fouttyw@;hawaii.rr.com] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 7:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Julian Date Can anyone tell me how to get the Julie Date via perl. I have an application that the user wants to have the julian date as part of a tracking number.. Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]